The friend of a 23-year-old student yesterday identified five men accused of
her gang-rape and murder and the bus where the horrific attack is alleged to
have taken place.

Arwindra Pandey, who was with the young physiotherapy student on the night she
was brutally raped and violated with a rusty iron bar, is the first and key
prosecution witness in the trial held in a special fast-track court.

The 28-year-old software engineer was pushed into court in a wheelchair by his
father at the start of a critical day’s evidence in the case which, despite
its high profile, is being